British Literature Flashcards
Cavalier’s Moto.
Carpe Diem
Henry Tutor becomes…
Henry VIII or “God-Like”
Earnest author.
Oscar Wilde
Repetition of the same vowel sound in words close to each other.
Assonance
Head of Puritans.
Oliver Cromwell
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.
Epistrophe
A concise and often witty statement of wisdom or opinion.
Aphorism
Martyred under Henry II.
Thomas Beckett
When an absent or nonexistent person or thing is address as if present and capable of understanding.
Apostrophe
Highest ranked pilgrim.
Knight
Nicknames for the Puritans.
Roundheads
The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions.
Personification
Swift’s BIG satire.
Gulliver’s Travels
Defeated at the Waterloo.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Recording of the war (HUGE film strip).
Bayeux Tapestry
Shakespeare’s Queen.
Elizabeth I
Making something divine.
Canonization
Implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words, not used in its literal sense.
Metaphor
Elizabeth’s mother
Anne Boleyn
First known settlers of England.
Celts
Who invented the movable type printing press?
Gutenburg
Formation of words whose sound in imitative of the sound of the noise or action designated.
Onomatopoeia
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.
Anaphora
An outcome that turns out differently than expected.
Situational Irony
What writer could have been assassinated?
Christopher Marlow
Richard I was also known as…
Lionheart
When the audience knows something the characters don’t.
Dramatic Irony
The fate of Henry VIII’s wives.
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
A metaphor that continues through a stanza or a whole poem that sometimes uses multiple comparisons of unlike objects.
Extended Metaphor or Conceit
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Shakespearian Rhyme Scheme
ABABBCBCCDCDEE
Spenserian Rhyme Scheme
What is said is different than what is meant.
Verbal Irony
Expression of something that is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another.
Irony
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales in English why?
He wanted to keep English alive
Swift’s juvenilian satire.
The Modest Proposal
An explicit comparison between two things using “like” or “as”.
Simile
Renaissance lasted from…
15th to 16th almost till 17th Century
Apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another.
Oxymoron
Substitution of one word for another which it suggests.
Metonymy
Saint Augustine brings ______ and converted Barbarians.
Christianity
European cities were built on this major river.
The River Thames
Exaggeration for emphasis or for the rhetorical effect.
Hyperbole
Ruled during the Industrial Revolution.
Queen Victoria
Number of lines in a sonnet.
14
Wrote the dictionary of the English language.
Samuel Johnson
Known as multifaceted or the Renaissance Man.
Ben Franklin
______ is known as the First Archbishop of Canterbury.
Saint Augustine
The Norman Conquest took place in…
1066
Recorded histories and stories (Monk).
The Venerable Bede
Who killed many Protestants?
“Bloody Mary”
A lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.
Ode
The Conqueror.
William I
Ruled during the American Revolution.
George III
Earliest period of English literature.
Old English
The Canterbury Tales were written in…
Middle English
Who wrote The Taddler and The Spectator?
Addison and Steele
Who was found in a handbag?
Jack Worthington
Scottish Poet.
Robert Burns
Mariner killed the…
Albatross
Created the Anglican Church.
Henry VIII
